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If you haven’t been to LACMA lately, this is a great weekend to see a few new exhibitions and catch some smaller shows before they close. Opening Sunday—or on view now for members—is The Sun and Other Stars: Charlie White and Katy Grannan. Both artists tackle the subject of identity and representation in a media-saturated landscape, such as Grannan’s street portraits or White’s series of blue-eyed blonde girls who answered a casting call.

Also currently on view is Michael Heizer: Actual Size. As you might expect from the artist behind Levitated Mass and other land art works like Double Negative and City, Heizer also takes a large-scale approach to photography and documentation. Thus it requires two different buildings to house this exhibition. On view on the third floor of BCAM are photographs of rock formations, presented at the actual size you’d find the formations in their natural environment. On view in the Resnick Pavilion is Actual Size: Munich Rotary—a representation, via custom-built projectors, of a 1969 work by Heizer, Munich Depression, which displaced 1,000 tons of earth from an unbuilt area of Munich. Both installations add some context to Heizer’s larger body of work, and must-see shows if you’re coming to the museum to experience Levitated Mass. (Families, don’t forget: all month long our free Andell Family Sundays feature art-making activities inspired by Levitated Mass).

On the music and film front, we have you covered as always. For tonight’s Jazz at LACMA concert, Katisse returns with his blend of jazz, hip hop, and world music. On Saturday, the Afro-Cuban Jazz Project takes it to Latin Sounds. On Sunday, iPalpiti performs at our Sundays Live chamber music series. All of these concerts, as usual, are free.

Happy 86th birthday to Frank Gehry! What would the world be without the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, or so many other groundbreaking buildings? We look forward to celebrating Gehry’s impact with a retrospective opening September 13: http://bit.ly/LACMAgehry